The Expeditions Report podcast series offers an insider’s look at what it’s like to live and work in the field. In this episode, herpetologists Christopher Raxworthy, associate curator in the Museum’s Division of Vertebrate Zoology, and Sara Ruane talk about their searches in Madagascar for the most elusive of rarely-seen snakes.

The word jalanan means “streetside” in Bahasa Indonesia, and in the film of the same name screening at the 2014 Margaret Mead Film Festival on Friday, October 24, director Daniel Ziv offers an intimate view of three “streetside” lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.